#Pushback

Jamie Maguire

jamie_maguire1

There is a scene in the show Mad Men that stuck with me.In a sales pitch, Don Draper and his team are getting pushback from a client. After various failed

Chamath Palihapitiya

chamath

Think about what we’ve just witnessed:1. Four years of chaos, incompetence and bickering.2. A pathetically managed pandemic that politicized everything. 3. Conspiracy theories that brought every cook out of the

AQ

Evollaqi

Liberalism will be unseated as the dominant political ideology in the West within the next few decades. Before then we will see: /1 1. A mental health pandemic, even more

Eddie Du

Edourdoo

"Consideration to convert G7 into D10 has been paused, sources have told The Australian, as Britain instead focuses on developing smaller quadrilateral relationships to drive nimble responses."https://www.theaustralian.com.a

Steffen Lüdke

stluedke

In an interview with FAZ, #Frontex Director Fabrice Leggeri claims that asylum seekers in the Aegean turn around voluntarily as soon as they see the Greek Coast Guard. (He thus

Chris Coyier

chriscoyier

JavaScript in 2021? What's going on? Let's brainstorm! Next-gen bundlers are here. They are fast.• https://github.com/evanw/esbuild • https://vitejs.dev/ • https://github.com/preactjs/wmr • https://www.snowpac

Camille S. Erickson

camillereports

Right now, @WYLegislature Sen. Corporations Committee is discussing Senate File 16 on net-metering systems in #Wyoming. It can seem like it's a wonky utility bill, but in reality it could

Jen Psaki

jrpsaki

Back in 2015, when I was nearly 6 months pregnant @DenisMcDonough called me and asked me if I would come back to the WH to serve as Comms Director, I

Bimbo Politics 𒀭𒈹𒍠𒊩

BimboPolitic

Parasocial hatred and parasocial love are two sides of the same coin of having a one sided emotional connection to someone. Often the false love turns into real hate out

Wesley Yang

wesyang

Ruy Teixeira interviewed in Persuasion on the "boutique social liberalism that is much more common in elite circles": "They don't want to defund the police -- but they're against police

Dirk Auer

AuerDirk

Very glad to have been interviewed about vaccine passports by Belgian newspaper @lalibrebeBasic argument is that policymakers should put in place a system of vaccine passports - essentially enabling firms

Dr. Prof. Col. Dan Olson D.T.H.

FoldableHuman

Why is "sex scenes are pointless" a storytelling take that I see every other day now? Do I need to explain smut to you? Is that where we're at? I

Fred Lambert

FredericLambert

I'm no conspiracy theory guy. I generally think the simplest explanation is most often the right one. But for some reason, I can't help but think that all that hydrogen

Peter Cronau

PeterCronau

Dangerous times for America as it now faces an Intelligence Community high on hubris over its defeat of Trump. What will be their pound of flesh? Topping the IC’s post-Trump

Dr. Prof. Col. Dan Olson D.T.H.

FoldableHuman

There's an odd blind spot you run into in anthropology and archeology, which is the unstated assumption that fiction is a modern invention, and everyone in ancient times took all

Joe Rigney

joe_rigney

And this brings me to the accusation that I'm seeing among a lot of conservatives and Christians (especially Trump-critics), namely that many conservatives are engaged in "whataboutism" in light of

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